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Nickel and Its Uses.

When refined and used in its pure
state, nickel is one of the most brilliant
ind durable metals ever discovered. 1t
receives o beautiful polish, will never
tarnish nor corrode, and is virtually in
destructible. Its best qualities are al
most unknown to the general public,
though the craftsman is familiar with
them, having utilized them in the manu-
lacturc of delicate and expensive instru-
mcnts. The public knows nickel only
as an ingredient, with copper, in the
clloy of our vc-cent pieces, and in the
form of elcctro-plating over iron, for
cutlery, crates, etc, where immunity
from rust and tarni$h is sought. Its
luster and strength make it superior to
silver itself for many household articles,
because it is not easily discolorcd by
acids, and does not wear out its "good
Clothes" rs sllvcr-platcd wear must do,
to maintain a respectable appearance.
Solid nickel is in use in Germany as
lining for b.. tubs, is employed for car
and carriage furnishings, and it takes
the place of steel, brass and silver in the
manufacture of knives, FORKS, buttons,
ornaments, harness and saddcry trim
mings. Edison, the great electrical in
vcntor, has found it necessary, because
superior to iron, in manufacturing the
heat generator Of electricity, but has
been compelled TO send to Europe 10 OBJ
tain it in sufficient quantity. The sup
ply from this country comes from Con,
ncctitut and Pennsylvania chiefly, and
can be increased.
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A PRINCES PERIL,
The German Crown Prince Has
Cancer of the Throat.

The German Crown Prince Has
Cancer of the Throat.
The German Crown-Prince, and successor
to the throne of Germany, has long been suf-
fering from a throat trouble, and it is now
admitted that the disease is Of cancerous
character. A Berlin dispatch says:
Sorrow and excitement prevail among all
classes The one question on everybody's lips
is; "What will the next few hours bring"
Prince William o-day sent q telegram to the
Emperor, saying: Father looks very we'll"
The latest report from San Reno is to the
effect that the Crown Prince is composed,
and personally writes kilograms for the En-
peror, but that he has not spoken since Satur-
day, except in cases Of absolute necessity.
It is said on authority that all the doctors
agree that the Crown Prince is afflicted with
cancer, but that q further examination IS
needed to decided whether it will be neces-
sary to excise the whole larynx or only
part Of 1t.
All court festivals have been stopped. The
hunting party fixed for Saturday has been
countermanded The National Zeitung in
q long article cites several cases
as dangerous as that of the Crown
Prince, which were treated with success
by Drs. Haen and Bergman. Medlca! men
DENY the assertion of Dr. Storck that it is too
late to operate. Successful cases are on rec
ord in which cancer appeared fourteen
months before operation.
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The Pepper Crop.

All pepper grown IN Sumatra says W.
S. Bennett, is dried by the heat of the
sun on the ground; hence it contains
more or less sand The pepper grown in
Singapore is dried in kim. In Malar
bar, the small, round, berry-likc fruit
grows somewhat loosely to the number
of twenty to thirty on q common pen
dulous fruit stalk. They arc at first green
then become red, and, ifallowcd to ripen,
yellow; but they are gathered before
completing maturity, and by drying in
that state turn blackish-gray or brown.
When one or two berries at the base of
the spike begin to turn red, the whole
spike is pincned off. Next day the berries
are rubbed off with the hand, picked
clean, and dried for three days on mats
IN the sun. The vine produces fruit in
two seasons of the year. The flowers OF
the principal crop appear in September
with the rains Of the first monsoon. In
the latter end of December the berries
begin to ripen, and are gathered in
January. The flowers of the second crop
appear in Mar,h and April with the rains
of the little monsoon, and the fruit rlpens
and is gathered about July and August.
Each vine may be reckoned upon as pro-
ducing !lbs. ofpcppcr.
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THE COUNTRY'S CROPS,
Latest Reports of the Department
of Agriculture.

Latest Reports of the Department
of Agriculture.
The Department of Agriculture reports the
yield of corn 1919 bushels per acre on about
73,O09,oOo acres, or l,453,O00,OOO bushels.
About 10000 acres are reported as aban-
doned before ripening. On the acreag.
planted the average would be lS.6 bushels per
acre, the same as in 1881. The corn surplus
States average slightly less than in 1881, the
thirty-one other States more. The quality OF
the crop is much lower than usual in the dry
region, and the proportion of merchantable
corn is below the average
The potato yield has been reduced, first by
drought in the West. and later by rot, mai:,-
~ in the Atlantic States. 1t is about the SAME
as in 1881, or ffty-four bushels average per
acre, making a crop of about 13i ,O0J
against l63, ,000, ,O0) bushels last year.
The tobacco yield per acre is very low in
the shipping and cutting leaf belt, especially
in the West. The average reported per acre
is: For Maryland, 63S pounds; Virginia, 600;
North Carolina, 4S5; Arkansas, $40; Teunes-
see, 430: Kentucky, sos; Ohio, Gl5 for cut
ting and cigar leaf; Indiana, ,397; Illinois, 403.
On the acreage reported in the August inves-
tigation this will make scarcely more than
third of crop.
The picking of cotton has progressed rapid
ly, and the harvest is already closed, except
in the soils which have resisted the adverse
influence of the season. The October condi-
tion indicated yield per acre three or four
per cent. less than last year. with nearly one
per cent. increase of area The result in frac-
tions of a bale indicate crop of about $780,.
C00 beleS on the acreage of about lS,G40, ,0O0,
or 81. of bale per acre.
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Foreign.

THE number of sailors treated by the Ma
rine Hospital Service during the past fiscal
year was 1914. The receipts were S570, 227,
and the expenditures S46l,3 1886.
FIFTEEN members of the National League
were sentenced at Kilrush, Ireland, to one
months imprisonment at hard labor. They
were removed from the court room singing
"God Save Irelandr'
The Lighthouse Boards estimates Of appro-
priation needed for the lighthouse establish
inents of the United States during the next
fiscal year aggregate s2,l67,5oO.
DURING the past fiscal year 81 ,OO2 claims
against the Government were passed upon, ag-
gregating sl6s, 464,773.
MANY Department officials are busy with
their annual reports.
DoN NJ DICKINSON, of Michigan, has sent a
despatch to the President, saying that ne
would accept the Post Office portfolio
if the Senate would unanimously confirm
him, otherwise he would not.
A DINNER to Mr.. Blaine was given in Paris
h few days since by DR.. and Mrs. 7. W..
Evans. Fifteen people, including UNI ed
States Minis' er McLane, participated. After
the dinner there was reception.
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A Hero Of "The Mutiny."

There is movement in England for
an increase of the pension of John 'Di-
vane, the private soldier who won the
Victoria cross, by leading the way to the
capture of the Cashmere gate at the
stornipg of Delhi, India. He lost leg
on that occasion. "There was" he says,
"a hitch, and then call for Who'll
storm the batteryT and the bhoys said,
Johnny, you 60 on, and we'll be after
ye.' And l said, Come on, bhoys,
death or gloryp And we went on, and
presently fell down, and, when came
to mesclf, I found my leg was gone, and
i said, Never mind, John Divane, me
bhoy, here's shilling day for ye fol
loif.' And when l heard the list of pin
sions read out and heard I'd only tip
pincc day, I croid." Divane did not
get the "death" he challenged, but the
tenpennyworth per day of "glory"
which he did get, docs not seem much
of q reward for a man who started the
turning point of the capture of Delhi,
and, therefore, of the suppression of the
mutiny. He is now "a years old, and
gets a living by peddling fish in donkey
cart at Penzancc.-Boston Tanoeler.
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VERY OLD PEOPLE.

WHEN Mrs. Sarah Klinck died in her nome ONE
at Peoria, ILL.,, recently, she had li'ed 'o'
years.
Mrs. JOB JENKINS, of Glen Gardner, Nj,
received a pension of $500 the day she was
100 years Of age.
THE Oldest citizen of Greenfield, Mass, is
A. Kellogg, who is % years OF age anu
destined for l0O.
Mrs. MAGDALENE BoGGs, of Milton, IND,
is lO4 years of age and in excellent health.
Her sight has failed her, hoT1v2r, ana she
has but one tooth left.
UNCLE RUBEN WHITE, the oldest colorei
man in Southern Ohio, died lately at the age
of 1O4. He was all through the war OF lol2'
and leaves awidow aged %.
A CONNECTICUT Yankee named Burrltt
lives in Ithaca, attends to his business regu-
larly, and is in vigorous health at ~. ne Is
the Oldest jeweler in the State.
JOHN TEsTE, Of Monmouth County, New
jersey, is dead at the age OF lOl. lie neVe,
was outside the borders of his county, anu
never saw q railroad or steamboat
s'DRoNEs do not live to see century, says
Mrs. Clarissa Cox, of Wakefield, Mass.
am lust 100 years of age, and it Is all due 70
hard work. Of which have always had plen-
ty to do
In chatty, intelligent and cheerful man
ner Mrs Frances Edgar, of Philadelphia, re-
latcs the incidents attending Lafayettes visit
and tells of her first glimpse of Washington.
She has just passed her Tooth birthday.
They have just buried at Southwold, Can
ada, Duncan Campbell, a man OF immense
stature, who was 50 years Of age. He was
the strongest man in Elgin County, and with
q clear mind and memory up to the hour OF
his death. Ho was Scotchman, coming
here in 1881.
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Curious Freak Of a Millionaire.

There ESQ many ways of spend
ing and Of losing a fortune that
perhaps nobody desires to be in
formed of a new method for this
purpose. 1 heard yesterday, however,
of a plan which seemed to me so ingen-
io,s and so admirably calculated for dis
sipating any amount of money that
cannot forbear reCcunting it. 1t seems
that young man found himself, on the
dclth of his father and mother, in un-
restricted possession of 81, 500, 900. When
the period of mourning had expired, he
bought a small circus and travelled about
with it in the capacity OF chief Snowman.
How long the fun lasted, or what small
sum the circus properties fetched when
they were sold at auction by the creditors
of the concern, I am not Informed.
Boston Post. -
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A RIOT IN LONDON.
More Than 200 Citizens and Forty
Policemen Injured.

More Than 200 Citizens and Forty
Policemen Injured.
London has been the scene Of Sunday
riot Of the fiercest character. The cause OF
the trouble was the attempt to hold public
meeting which had been interdicted by tho
police. In the collisions which followed 600
policemen were pitted against an angry
crowd of 100, 900 men, and the military were
finally called out. Particulars OF the disturb
ance are given in a cablegram as follows:
Mr.. Robert Cunningham Graham, Member
of Parliament for the Northwest Division OF
Lanarkshire, an advanced Liberal socalled,
did notspeak to his Socialist friends in Trafal-
gar Square to-day as he had threatened to 90
in defiance of the police. Tens of thousands OF
his excited followers FASTENED to the Square
this morning to resist the carrying out OF the
"ukase Of the military despot," as they chose to
call Sir Charles Warren's proclamation; there
they met 1000 metropolitan police, and after
numerous slirmishes and many serious con-
ficts, dispersed in disorder, carrying with
them hundreds Of broken heads and
bruised bodies, and lesson they will not
soon forget. Mr.. Graham was clu6bed
for his pains, arrested and released on bail.
The scene has not been equaled since 1866,
when the people, asserting the right OF public
meeting. destroyed the railings around
Hyde Park. Four thousand policemen
took possession of the approaches to
Trafalgar Square at an early hour
They had been on the ground but short
time when various societies, Socialist,
Radical and Irish, approached the Square
from every direction. The paraders were
headed by bands Of music, and they car
ried banners and notices. The police at.
tackled and dispersed each group as it arrived
near the Square. Fierce fights took place
on the Strand, Northumberland avenue,
Whitehall, Pail Mall and other adjacent
streets One of the societies succeeded in en-
tering the Square, but was repulsed after q
bloody fight, in which Commoner Graham was
seriously injured. Mr.. Graham was subsequent
ly arrested for attacking the police. At
4:3O p NJ the crowd in the vicinity Of the
square numbered 1C0, ,0C0 and til police were
powerless to disperse them. Cavalry and
infantry were summoned to the assistance Of
the police, but no charge was made, as the
people of their own accord began to disperse
at dusk.
were injured. Fifty persons were arrested,
among them was the Socialist Burns. Some
of the injured were well enough
to leave the hospitals after treatment;
with vitriol squirted from asyringe. Another
declares that he was bayoneted. Two
policemen were stabbed with knives.
It was noticeable that the crowd, while
hocting the police, cheered the cavalry and
infantry posted in the middle Of the
Square ready for action in case the crowd
broke the police line. If the crowd had sue
ceeded in breaking the line it is believed that
the riot act would have been read, and the
infantry would have been ordered to fire.
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THE LABOR WORLD.

The Brotherhood of Carpenters transacts
its business in six different languages.
IT is estimated that 1000 textile workers
are idle in Philadelphia, owing to slackness
of trade,
THE Knights of Labor have declared war
upon the Lehigh coal operators who are re.
sisting the miners demands for higher pay.
AT the recent elections the entire Union
Labor ticket in Labette County, Kansas, was
successful by majorties ranging from 81 to
800.
THE troubles between the miners and opera.
tors in southern Illinois, have been settled by
q compromise. The miners get about hall
the advance they demanded.
THE coke workers Of the various coke
mining points, have been holding largely
attended meetings at Connellsville, Penn,
for the purpose of forming an organization
on large scale.
The glass manufacturers have decided that
every glass factory in the East will be shut
down in case strike of the Western glass
workers takes place. 1t is claimed that 7,DU0
hands will be involved.
ducts grocery store at Passaic, N j., has
declared dividend of ten per cent. after an
existence af about three months The stock
holders are all knights of Labor.
IRWIN BLEICHART, who runs shifting en-.
gine at Lebanon, Penn, claims to be the
youngest locomotive engineer in the country,
ifnot in the world. He is only eighteen, and
has been at the business two years.
A. A. CARLTON, of the Executive Board,
Knights of Labor, has gone to Kansas to in
vestigate the standing of the leaders in the
celebrated Southwest strike, whose trials are
soon to take pl .ce at Fort Scott. If entitled
to support, the Knights of Labor will give
them all the financial assistance needed and
will see that they have good counsel.
A BLANKET MILL, said to be the first on the
African continent, has just been opened at
Cape Town. worked by Caftir girls, who re-
ce.ve - cents day. The report of the Kaip-
ing colliery in North China, made by Kwong
Yung Wang, gives ~ cents as the daily pay
OF enginemen, Is cents for miners and Is
cents for door and switch boys. The cotton
and Jute mills of BOMBAY pay their opera
tives from 10 to II cents day.
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OLEOMARGARINE.
Facts From the Internal Revenue
Commissioners Report.

Facts From the Internal Revenue
Commissioners Report.
Internal Revenue Commissioner Miller, In
his annual report, recommends the appoint
ment in his Office Of an additional head Of
division to carry out the provisions of the
Oleomargarine Act The enforcement of this
act, Mr.. Miller says, has been attended by
some extraordinary results. The total re-
ceipts for the first year in which the law has
been in force were S950,04S. Such result
was not anticipated Practically the tax has
been in excess of the two cents provided for
by the law. BY dividing the total receipts
by the number of pounds removed for con.
sumption or sale, the tax per pound is found
to be 3 $40 cents.
There is one significant fact shown by the
returns. The number OF persons dong ousl-
ness under the Oleomargarine Act has been l
reduced from a maximum OF 1902 to ] ,5S4.
This is not due alone to the low price OF out.
ter which prevailed during some months. OF
the year, but to the fact that the business has
been turned into monopoly. The Commls-
sioner believes that the law ought to be
changed so as to impose a tax OF two cents
Der pound upon the manufactured substances,
such as oleomargarine oil, which are intend
ed as substitutes for butter fat; also upon
the mixtures of such substances with butter,
and upon limitations made by mixing outter
with beef fat, lard, etc.
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A Queens Heart.

The Nantes Museum, which IS one OF
the richest departmental museums IN
France, has just acquired small casket
of no little historic interest--namely:
that in which the heart of Anne of Brit
t nv, Queen of France and Nav AFRO, was
placed at her death. The caskct, which
is of massive gold, is made in the shape
of q heart, and inside the iilagree
work on the outside are nine fleur-de-lis
and nine trefoil flowers, with the follow
inc motto: "Cuevr de vertus orne dig
nc:ncnt covronne." The casket is at
tributed to Jean Perreal, painter in or
dinary to the King, 'Eho was ordered by
Francis to paint the Queel's portrait
when she died at Blois in 1914.
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PROMINENT PEOPLE.

TIE Prince Of Wales has just entered upon
his forty seventh year.
Mr. MOODY will hold revival meetings at
Louisville next January, in tabernacle that
will seat 500 people.
COMMODORE JOSEPH B. HULL is the old
est OFFICER in the American Navy. He has
served twenty-four years
GENERAL MILES, the Indian fighter, has
been presented with a handsome sword by
his admirers in Tucson, Arizona.
THE wealthiest Of the Judges of the United
States Supreme Court is Justice Bradley,
whose fortune is estimated at S75o,ooO.
The King of Corea furnished his winter
palace with $4,000 worth of American
chairs, beds and tables. He has bought an
American steamer for SIS, 600.
The Duke OF Argyls latest hobby on his
Scotch estates is the American starting. In
verary is said to literally swarm with species
OF this plucky, hardy warbler
Mr. HERRESHOFF, the blind builder of fa-
mouSly fast steam yachts, always asks
at a hotel for light, bright, cheerful room.
He can feel the atmosphere if he cannot see
the sunlight.
JOHN WANAMAKER, the PHILADELPHIA mer-
chant, is said to carry the heaviest life insur-
ance of any American citizen. The policies
on his life amount to $500, ,0OO, premium on
which is 100000 annually.
JOHN I. BLAIR, the richest man in New
Jersey, owns three railroads in Kansas, two
in Missouri and one in Iowa Although
seventy-four years DID, and worth q dozen
millions, he is still planning new money
getting projects.
PRINCE WALDEMAR, of Denmark, came
near shooting the Car at recent hunting
party in the Nyrup forest He mistooh him
in the dark for stag, and hal sure aim at
him and his finger on the trigger before he
was undeceived.
THE khelive of Egypt is strict nono-
gamist. He lives with his one wife and chill
drcn at his palace in Isnalia, near the Nile
bridge Every morning he rises between
4 and , and takes two hours exercise Be-
tween md he drives to the Abdin palace,
where he holds state receptions, receives tele.
grams and attends to the affairs of state.
AMONG the successful men who were tele-
graph operators i'll early life are Andrew Car
negie, Theodore n. Vail, of the Bell Tele.
phone Company; Ex-Governor Bullock, of
Georgia; Ex-Governor Cornell, of New York;
W. ]. johnson, the publisher; E. H. john
son, the President OF the Edison Company;
Thomas A. Edison, d. H. Bates. the President
of the Baltimore and Ohio Telegraph, and
Colonel Richard Clowry, Western Superin-
tcndcnt OF the Western Union.
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South and West.

AUGUSTA, Ca, will hold next fall one of
the grandest expositions ever cotton up in
the Southern States.
THE flames have destroyed one-thirl the
business portion of the town of st. Peter,
Minnesota.
The remains of the five dead Anarchists
Lingg, Spies, Engel, Fischer and Parsons
were inferred in the strong vault at Wald-
helm Cemetery, Chicago, with much pomp
and ceremony. Eulogies were spoken over
the coftins of the dead, brass bands
played melancholy music, singing socie-
ties sang mournful songs, red en-
blems of anarchy were draped about
the caskets, magnificent floral pieces
were displayed almost by tho carload, thou
sands of sympathizing friends gathered to
participate in the final exercises and to parade
behind the hearses, and 250,0W people wit
messed the funeral cortege as it passed through
the streets.
JOHN ARENsDoRF, the wealthy brewer, is
to be tried the second time at Sioux City,
Iowa, for the murder of Rev. George e.
Haddock, a prominent Prohibitionist.
Investigation showed that Anarchist Lingg
killed himself with dynamite bomb and not
a Illuminating cap. Fielden and Schwab,
whose death sentence was commuted, have
been placed at work in their life prison at
JOneU, III.
FIVE laborers were killed in freight train
collision, at Averill, MINI.
STEPHEN 81. CULVER (colored) and two of
his children, one an infant and the other a
boy of nineteen, perished by the burning of
his house near Severn, Md. His wife and
two children escaped.
A FINNISH workman at the Wickes tunnel,
Montana, shot and killed John Eid and John
Jinhurpr and then shot himself through the
heart.
ELIZA RANDALL, a nineteen-year-old col
ored girl of Quitman County, Ca, killed her
father with an ak, because he eforbade her 60
ing out after dark.
A BOYS lighted cigarette caused fire at
Little Rock, Ark, which destroyed property,
including large amount of cotton, valued at
$500, 1000.
THE richest gold mine in the world is re-
ported to have been discovered near Pres
colt, Arizona.